Birth of Adult Entertainment the Origin Story of Happening Bars
The response was huge, and perverts began to gather from all over the country. Men and women with a penchant for exposure would strip naked, and it was a common occurrence. One day, one of the customers jokingly said,
“Why don’t you do it anyway?”
The two men and women got into the mood and began to have sex.
For Kawaguchi, it was undoubtedly a serendipitous and spontaneous turn of events. Those around him also chimed in, saying, “So there’s even this kind of happening!” Thus, the 21st-century-style adult bar evolved into a happening bar. As Kawaguchi puts it, “It was truly a ‘happening’ in every sense of the word.”
The roots of the happening bar were indeed a product of chance. Kawaguchi named it based on the concept of happening. After learning about the originality of Pure Tea, an AV maker approached Kawaguchi some time later with a proposal to co-produce a DVD depicting the reality of a happening bar. However, in happening bars, sexual activities were routinely conducted, so drawing attention to them wasn’t particularly advisable. After refusing several times, an informal agreement was reportedly reached between Kawaguchi and the AV maker until the DVD was released.
“There was an oral agreement to keep the term ‘happening bar’ hidden, with the establishment being presented outwardly as a couple’s café. However, the AV maker broke that agreement and released it as a happening bar,”
This is the background to the spread of the term happening bar.
We asked Kawaguchi, who had been caught red-handed, about his thoughts at the time.
“Indeed, what used to be underground has now become mainstream. That’s why things got a little strange.”
Just as Kawaguchi had feared, the phase changed from there.
What happened to the happening bars that “went crazy” after becoming a major player? To be continued in Part 2 “Like a ‘pickup box’… a ‘transformation’ to commercialism that saddened the enthusiasts. for the full story.
